Compatibilism: Opposing View Of Indeterminism

In the following essay I will describe my belief in Indeterminism and give the opposing view in Compatibilism. I will give reasons why Compatibilism has credence and then I will defend Indeterminism. When the question of free will comes to the mind, I agree with the concept of Indeterminism. The idea that a person’s choices and actions are not pre-determined through casual law; that random choices can happen and that the future is unpredictable. Indeterminism grants that some cause and effect scenarios happen, but it gives the person the ability to have a choice and to be responsible for that decision. I think the principal reason that I believe that we are ruled by Indeterminism is that when a person is forced to decide, what decision that
This point of view suggests that everything is determined and that a person can only be free if there are no constraints either internal or external upon the person making choices. Everything is determined by casual law and there is no randomness or other decisions that could have been made. External or physical constraints imprison a person in their determined fate, whereas internal constraints would consist of mental illness and other like illnesses. Simply put, a person has no control over the action, consequence of an action, nor the origin of the action. Using the same example from before, you have no control over when the light turned green and allowing you to start to drive through the intersection. You also have no control over the other person who is running a red light, or what caused that person to run a red light. You are physically constrained inside the vehicle and therefore cannot escape the situation. The only thing you can do is either to try to avoid the vehicle or hit it. Once that decision is made, then the consequences of that action are
This makes the Indeterminism view point invalid. Indeterminism asserts that a person has a free will to make a choice, where they could have chosen differently, and allows for random actions to happen. Every action is connected and determined, if there is an action, there must be a reaction or effect, which is a determined outcome of the casual event. For each decision a person makes that would be considered “free will,” there was an origination condition that occurred for the person to have that decision to make. The consequences of whichever decision that person made has a predetermined outcome and becomes an origin event for another decision to be made. This can be seen with children who grow up in alcoholic / drug abusive households. The children tend to grow up to be alcoholic themselves. The percentage that do not grow up to be alcoholic / drug abusive have escaped from the physical and internal constraints of that lifestyle. Therefore, there is no randomness in the universe and that casual law determines how a person is to